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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30077	An English expositor teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language : with sundry explications, descriptions and discourses / by I.B., doctor of physick.	J. B. (John Bullokar)	1641 (1641)	Wing B5429; ESTC R29141	109,869	224

feined River in hell the water whereof being drunken causeth forgetfulnes of all that is past Leucoma A fruit in India so called much like unto a Chestnut Leveret A young Hare * Levesell A bush Levity Lightnes Lexicon A Greek Dictionary for words Liable Subject to belonging to * Liard Nimble wilde Libard A spotted wilde beast the male of a Panther See Panther Libell A little Booke sometime a defamatorie scroll or slanderous writing or invective written against one without any knowne name of the Author Libertine One of loose life or carelesse of Religion Libidinous Lustfull leacherous Licenciate One that hath studied the Civill Law five yeares Licentious Loose wanton Licentiousnesse Too much liberty loosenes wantonnes Lieu. In stead or place of another thing Lignum Aloes See Aloes Lignum vitae See Guaiacum Limit A bound or end Also to set bounds Limitation An appointing of bounds Lineall Down-right like a line Lineament The forme draught or proportion of the body Linguist One skilfull in languages Lipothymie A fainting or swounding when the vital spirits being suddenly opprest a man sinketh down as if he were dead Liquid Thin and moist Liquefaction A melting Liquefie To melt Liquid Amber A sweet Rosin brought from the West-Indies comfortable to the braine or any griefe proceeding from cold causes Lizard A little beast much like our Evet but without poison breeding in Italy other hot countries The dung of this beast is good to take away spots in the eye cleereth the sight And the head thereof being bruised and laid to draweth out thorns or any thing sticking within the flesh Litanies Prayers or supplications so called of the Greeke verbe Litanevo which signifieth to beseech or intreat Litargie The some that riseth from lead when it is tried It is cold of operation and often used by Surgeons in Ointments and Plaisters being of a gentle drying cleansing and binding nature See Lethargie Literature Learning knowledge in books Litherly Slothfull Litigious Contentious full of strife Liturgie Publike service of the Church Locall Of or belonging to place Locust A great Flye or Grashopper with long legs breeding in India and other hot Countries There are two kindes of them One with wings not good to be eaten and the other without wings which the inhabitants use for food * Lodemanage Skill of navigation Lodestar A Starre that guideth one Lodestone A stone of the colour of rusty iron which hath an admirable vertue not only to draw iron to it selfe but also to make any iron upon which it is rubbed to draw iron also It is written notwithstanding that being rubbed with the juice of Garlicke it cannot then draw Iron as likewise if a Diamond be laid close unto it This stone is found in the Indian Sea and also in the Countrey of Trachonitis It is of greatest use in Navigation for by it Sailers find out the certaine course of their voyage the needle in their compasse tempered herewith still standing directly toward the North and South Logician One skilfull in Logicke Logicke The art of reason Lohoc A physicall word It is a thicke sirupe or other soft substance which must not be swallowed but suffered to melt of ie selfe in the mouth that so it may gently slide downe and thereby have the more vertue against diseases of the brest lungs and throat Lone Lending sometime single or solitary Longanimity Long sufferance or forbearance Longitude The length of any thing In Astronomy it signifieth the distance of any Star or Planet from the first degree of the signe Aries Loquacitie Much talke or babling * Lore Learning knowledge Lorimer One that maketh bits for bridles and such like instruments * Lorrell A devourer * Losell A lout sometime a crafty fellow Losenger A flatterer a lyar Lotion A washing * Louke A fellow receiver Lubricity Slippernesse Lucerns A beast almost as big as a Wolfe breeding in Muscovia and Russia of colour between red and brown mingled with black spots Lucre. Gain profit Lunacy A disease wherein one is distracted in his wits at certaine times of the Moon Lunaticke Sicke of a Lunacie Lupines A little flat Pulse almost like a small Beane but much lesse and bitter in taste They be not very good meat but are sometime used in Physicke against worms in children and the decoction of them taketh away spots and freckles of the face * Lushbrough A base coin in the time of King Edward the third Luster A shining or great brightnesse Lutum Clay Luxury Roiotousnes leachery Luxurious Riotous wanton lecherous Lyncuris A bright shining stone and sometimes of a dark yellow color like Saffron This stone groweth of the urine of the beast Lynx being congealed which urine the Lynx hideth as Pliny writeth because men should not find it Some say it is good against the paine of the stomack yellow Iaundise and loosenesse of the belly Lynx A spotted beast like unto a Wolfe and having a very perfect sight This beast breedeth chiefly in Countries of the East is often found in the woods of Almaine Sclavonia Lyrike A Poet which maketh verses to be sung unto the harp The best of these Poets among the Grecians was Pindarus and among the Latines Horace M MAcerate To steep or soake in water sometime to afflict or vexe To make leane Machil An Hebrew word It signifieth the rich Robe of the Ephod worn by the high Priest of the old law having about the skirts therof 72. Pomegranats of blew silk purple skarlet and as many bells of gold between thē round about Machination A devising or subtle contriving of a matter Machivilian A politicke states-man a cunning Polititian such as Machivell was Macrology Long and tedious talk without matter Maculate To blemish or blot Madrigals A kinde of Sonnets Magician A cunning man a Sorcerer a great learned Clerk a Conjurer Magike At first this word signified great learning or knowledge in the nature of things now it is most commonly taken for inchantment and sorcery Magistracy The bearing of office authority rule government Magnanimity Great courage Magnanimous Noble-minded one of great courage Magnificence Sumptuousnesse great port and statelinesse Magnificent Sumptuous honorable stately Magnifico An honorable personage Magnitude Greatnes Mainpernours Those that are sureties for a man and undertake that he shall appeare at a certaine day before Judges in a Court. Maineprise The bayling of a man out of prison upon security given that he shall be forth-comming Major The greater or more ancient Malady A disease Malecontent Not contented ill pleased Malediction A cursing Malefactor An evill-doer Malevolent Ill minded spitefull envious Malignant Envious spitefull mischievous Maligne Spitefull or to spite and hate Malignity Spitefulnesse envy malice Mammon An Assyrian word of the singular number and Masculine Gender as Saint Hierome affirmeth It is interpreted riches Manage To rule order or handle a thing well Mandate A commandement Mandragoras See Mandrake following Mandrake A strange hearbe bearing yellow round Apples The root of

overthrow Subvert To overthrow to destroy Succinct Briefe short Suffocate To strangle choak Suffocation A choaking a strangling Suffrage Favourable voyces in our behalfe as at the choosing of officers or Magistrates Suggest To put closely into ones minde Suggestion A prompting or putting of a thing into ones minde Sulphur Brimstone Summary A briefe gathering together an abridgment containing the whole effect of a matter in few words Summarily Briefly touching onely the chiefe points Summity The height or top of a thing Superabound To abound very much to be in great plenty Supereminence Authoritie or dignitie above others Supererogation Laying out of more then one hath received or the doing of more then a man is of necessity bound to doe Superficiall Going no farther then the outside slight bearing shew onely in the outside without any goodnesse within Superficies The outside of every thing which is alwayes in sight Superfluity More then needs to be overmuch Superfluous That which is too much also vaine or unprofitable Superlative The highest Superiour Higher above another Supernall That which commeth from above Superscription A writing set upon any thing as on the outside of a letter Supersedeas In our common Law it signifieth a commandement sent by writing forbidding an officer from the doing of that which otherwise he might and ought to doe Superstition An excesse of ceremonious worship false worship or honour given to God Supplant To trip one or to overthrow him craftily Supplement That which supplyeth or maketh up what is wanting Supply To fill up or adde too Suppliant He that maketh a supplication or humbly intreateth another Supplicate To beseech humbly Suppository Any thing put up into the Fundament to make the body soluble It is commonly made of honey boyled till it grow thick and so made into an apt forme for that purpose whereto sometime is added the yolke of an egge or salt when we will have it to worke the effect more speedily Suppresse To keepe downe to beate under sometime to conceale or keep close Supputation An account or reckoning Supreme Chiefe highest most excellent Surcease To give over leave off or cease * Surcote A gowne with a hood of the same Surplusage Overplus more then needs Surprise To come unawares to take upon a sudden Surprisall A taking unawares * Surquidrie Presumption Surrender To yeeld up lands or tenements to another Surreption A privy taking away Surround To compasse round about Survey To overlooke or oversee Surveyer He that hath the oversight of the kings or some great personages lands or works Survive To overlive or live after another Surviver He that liveth after another Suspend To stay one by authority for a time from executing his office to delay to deferre Suspence Doubtfulnesse uncertainty Suspiration A breathing or sighing Swallowes tayle In building it signifieth a fastening of two peeces of timber so strongly together that they cannot fall asunder Swaine A Servant Swaynemote A Court kept thrice a yeare touching matters belonging to a forrest * Sweven A dreame * Swynker A labourer Sycomore A tree like a fig tree having great branches and large leaves like a Mulberry It beares fruit three or foure times in a yeare much like a wilde Fig but without any seeds within The fruit groweth upon the very body of the tree and the great maine boughes and will never be ripe except it be scraped with an yron tool It is found plentifully in Caria Egypt and the I le of Rhodes especially in such places where Wheate will not grow Sycophant A Tale bearer a slanderer a false accuser Syllogisme An Argument consisting of three parts whereby somthing is necessarily prooved as thus Every vertue is honorable Patience is a vertue Therefore Patience is honourable The first part of a syllogisme is called the Proposition or Major the second the Assumption or Minor and the third the Conclusion Sylvane Of or belonging to the woods Symbole A short gathering of principal points together Symmetrie Due proportion of one part with another Symmetrian Hee that considereth the due proportion of a thing and how well the parts agree with the whole Sympathy A likenesse in quantity or a like disposition or affection of one thing to another Symphony Harmony or consent in Musicke Symptome Any passion or griefe following a disease or sensibly joyned with it as headach with an Ague a pricking in the side with a Plurisie and such like Synagogue A Congregation or assembly commonly it signifies a church of the Iewes Synteresie The inward conscience or a naturall quality ingrafted in the soule which inwardly informeth a man whether he do well or ill Synod A generall councell a generall or universall assembly Synoper See Cinoper Synopsie A sight or full view of a thing T * TAas. An heape Tabernacle A shelter or a room made abroad with boords and boughes of trees There was of old among the Israelites a feast commanded by God called the feast of Tabernacles which began on the fifteenth day of the seventh moneth and continued seven dayes during which time the Israelites lived abroad in Tabernacles in remembrance that their Fathers a long time so lived after God had delivered them out of the land of Egypt Tacamabaca A Rosin brought out of the West Indies of great vertue against any cold humours rising of the Mother Toothache and divers other griefes Talent A certaine value of money Among the Greekes there were two kinds of talents the greater and the lesse The greater contained about two hundred thirty three pounds sterling the lesse about an hundred seventy five pounds Among the Hebrewes the greater talent of the Sanctuary contained 400. pounds the lesser Talent halfe so much Tallage Custome fraight Tamarinds A fruite brought hither out of India like unto green Damsens They are cold in operation and therefore good against burning Feavers and all inward diseases proceeding of heate and choler Tamariske A little tree bearing leaves not much unlike to heath the decoction whereof in Wine and a little Vineger being drunken is of great vertue against the hardnes or stopping of the spleene or Milt This tree doth by nature so wast the Milt that Swine which have been daily fed out of a vessell made thereof have beene found to have no Milt at all * Tapinage Secrecie slilinesse Tarantula A little beast like a Lizard having spots in his necke like starres Tardie Slow Tartar Lee●e of wine Tautologie A repeating of one speech or matter often Taxe To appoint what one shal pay to the Prince sometime to reprove Tearce A measure of moyst things being the sixt part of a tun and the third part of a pipe * Teene Sorrow Temerarious Rash hasty Temeritie Rashnesse Templaries Certaine Christian souldiers dwelling about the Temple at Hierusalem whose office was to entertain Christian strangers that came thither for devotion and to guard them in safetie when they went to visite the places of the holy Land They wore by their Order a white Cloake or upper Garment